Project name: Recruitment, participation, and disengagement of children and adolescents with a focus on migrants and women in organized crime in Chile.

Study objective: To characterize the phenomenon of children and adolescents recruitment, considering migration, gender, and territory transversally, in order to generate an operational definition of the concept and identify risk and protective factors that guide public policy.

Start Date: November 2025

End date: December 2025

Counterpart: Undersecretariat for Crime Prevention (SPD), Ministry of Public Security

Director: Catalina Droppelmann (CJS)

Researchers: Rolando Carmona (CJS), Vicente González (CJS) and Matilde Elton (CJS)

External contributors: Tamara Faride